Informal

From Cecil Balmond: 

      The new humanism is to recognize the power of pattern, multilayered and catalytic, for we are part of it. Pattern is hard-wired into our consciousness in many ways, from simple aggregation of molecular structure to the spatial coiling within nature’s landscape. When we design we strike resonance with deep buried archetypes of form. We cannot resurrect them for we are part of their nature and cannot be transparent to ourselves; but we may be brave and venture into the interior of a tangle, rather than conveniently slice up our thoughts into bits of reasoning. The drive of a rational ethic to label reason as linear and determinable is not necessarily correct: the rational is only a small part of the world of ideas, it may be convenient but not real in the fact of the world.